Package for dress shields and other articles



July 27, 1937. ANDREWS 2,087,879

PACKAGE FOR DRESS SHIELDS AND OTHER ARTICLES Filed July 16, 1935INVENTOR Patented July 27, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PACKAGE FORDRESS SHIELDS AND OTHER ARTICLES Application-July 16, 1935, Serial No.31,585

1 Claim.

This invention relates to an improved package for merchandise; and theinvention has reference, more particularly, to a novel display packageor envelope in which articles of merchandise may be enclosed so as to beprotected against soiling or other injury, while nevertheless beingsubject to examination by a prospective purchaser to determine style,color, finish, quantity, etc.

The invention has for an object to provide a protective enclosure, ofenvelope form, having a display opening of novel arrangement anddisposition which is closed by a transparent material, all so related tothe envelope body that the enclosed merchandise is displayed both at theenvelope face and at an edge or peripheral margin thereof, whereby theprospective purchaser may not only view the merchandise through theenvelope face to determine style, color, finish and likecharacteristics, but may also view the merchandise edgewise fordetermining the number of enclosed items thereof and the edge finish ofthe same.

In its more specific aspects, the invention has for an object to providea novel combined pro-- tective and display package or envelope which isespecially adapted to enclose a plurality of dress shields or like flatarticles; and to this end the face opening of the envelope is preferablyof substantially crescent shape, thus corresponding to the shape of thedress shields to be enclosed; said opening, and the transparent materialcovering the same, being extended around the bottom peripheral portionof the envelope so as to provide an edge opening through which thethickness or edges of the enclosed dress shields may be viewed andexamined, whereby the prospective purchaser may easily determine thenumber of shields enclosed, as well as the character of the stitching orother finish by which the margins of the shields are characterized.

The invention has for another object to provide a novel envelope,comprising a face section and laterally infolded back sections and abottom closure flap; the face section having a major opening of desiredshape provided with a minor extension thereof indenting said bottom endsection, together with a novel form and association of transparent sheetextended over said major opening and its minor extension so as to befolded with the bottom end section and interlocked thereby in extensionover a resultant bottom peripheral portion of the face opening providedin the finished envelope.

Other objects of this invention, not at this time more particularlyenumerated, will be understood from the following detailed descriptionof the same.

' An illustrative embodiment of this invention is shown in theaccompanying drawing, in which:--

Fig. 1 is a face view of the novel package or envelope according to thisinvention; Fig. 2 is a back view thereof; Fig. 3 is a verticallongitudinal section through the same, taken on line 3-3 in Fig. 1, butdrawn on an enlarged scale; Fig. 4 is an inside plan view of the blankfrom which the package or envelope is formed; and Fig. 5 is a viewshowing the blank as partially manipulated during the production of thepackage or envelope therefrom.

Similar characters of reference are employed in the above describedviews, to indicate corresponding parts.

' to enclose and yet display dress shields, wherein the envelopestructure comprises a front or face section In, integral with andcontiguous to the respective vertical sides of which are back sectionsII and I2 of a width somewhat exceeding one-half the width of said frontor face section III. Integral with and contiguous to the bottom end ofsaid front or face section I0 is a bottom end section l3. Integral withand contiguous to the upper end of said front or face section is afoldable closure-flap I l. The free vertical marginal portion of backsection I2 is provided with a gummed area I5 on its inner surface. Thebottom end section I3 is provided, on its inner surface, with a gummedarea It.

Formed in the front or face section I0 is a major opening 11. This majoropening I1 is preferably of crescentoid shape, with its horns or lobesupwardly directed and terminating more or less adjacent to the upper endof said front or face section, while its convex under margin issubstantially tangent to the bottom end of said front or face section.Preferably this opening I1 is slightly larger in dimensions than are theface area dimensions of the dress shields to be enclosed in theenvelope, so that, when enclosed, the entire face area of a dress shieldis exposed therethrough. Extending downward from the convex under marginof the major opening l1, across the fold line :3 between said front or,face section and the bottom end section l3, so as to indent said bottomend section is a centrally disposed minor extension l8 of said majoropening H, the same being substantially rectangular in shape.

Adhesively secured to the inner surface of said front or face sectionIll, along and upon the marginal portions bounding the major opening ii,is a sheet of transparent material l9, such e. g. as known to the artunder the trade-name Cellophane. At its lower end, said sheet isterminates in a narrowed or tapered tongue portion 2i! which continuesover the minor extension l8 of said major opening l'l, being likewiseadhesively secured to the inner surface of the bottom end section 13,along and upon the marginal portions bounding said minor extension l8 ofthe major opening, thus disposing said tongue portion 20 across the foldline intermediate said front or face section it! and said bottom endsection l3.

The transparent sheet having been applied and affixed to the blank fromwhich the envelope is formed, in the manner and disposition abovedescribed, the envelope is completed by first infolding the back sectionll about the fold line y and thereupon infolding the opposite backsection 12 about the fold line 2, whereby the gummecl marginal area l5of the latter meets, overlaps and is adhered to the free marginalportion of back section H, thus completing the envelope back wall.Thereafter the bottom end section i3 is upfolded about the fold line :1:over and upon the envelope back wall, whereby the gummed area i6strongly adheres the meeting surfaces thereof together, and thus formingthe closed bottom end of the envelope. When the bottom end section I3 isthus disposed, the minor extension l8 of the major opening I! is carriedthereby into the plane of the back wall of the envelope, while at thesame time the covering tongue portion 20 is folded with the bottom endsection l3 so as to extend around the bottom periphery of the envelopebody and across the bottom peripheral opening provided in connectionwith the latter, said tongue portion being at the same time firmlyinterlocked or anchored between the envelope back wall and said bottomend section l3.

In use of the envelope, one or more pairs of dress shields are insertedtherein, and the closure flap I4 closed. When thus inserted in theenvelope, the shields are disposed in substantial registration with thecrescentic opening I! in the envelope front, so that the same may bereadily inspected by a prospective purchaser, and examined forappearance, style, color and other visible characteristics. The insertedshields will rest on the closed bottom end of the envelope, and byreason of the provision of the peripheral opening at the bottom marginalportion of the envelope body as above described, the shields may also beviewed and examined edgewise, so as to assure the prospective purchaserthat the envelope contains a proper number thereof, and to likewisepermit inspection of the edge finish, marginal stitching or othercharacteristics of the shields best ascertained by edgewise examinationthereof.

Due to the specific form, relative proportion and location of the minorextension H! of the major opening I! of the envelope which constitutesthe bottom peripheral opening of the envelope, no undue weakening of theenvelope structure is involved, but rather a strong, durable and veryconvenient display envelope for the intended purposes is assured. k

It will be obvious that the size, shape and material makeup of theenvelope is subject to more or less variation or modification within thescope of this invention, and that the envelope may be specificallydesigned to accommodate various articles of merchandise other than dressshields.

Having described my invention, I claim:

A display envelope, comprising a body formed by a front wall andlaterally infolded, overlapped and secured back sections forming a backwall, and a bottom end section upfolded from the lower end of said frontwall over upon and se cured to said back Wall, said front wall having amajor opening of crescentic shape with its horns directed upwardlytoward and terminating adjacent to the upper end thereof and its convexmargin opposed substantially tangent to the bottom end thereof, saidmajor opening being of little less width than the width of said body,said major opening havinga centrally disposed minor extension ofsubstantially reduced width extending from said convex margin across thefold line of said bottom end section and indenting the latter Withoutunduly weakening the same, a sheet of transparent material adhered tothe inner surface of said front wall to extend over said major opening,and said sheet having a tongue portion extending over said minorextension of said major opening, the extremity of said tongue portionbeing folded upwardly to lie in secured relation between said foldedbottom end section and said back wall and thus around the bottom end ofsaid body to form with said minor extension at transparently closedperipheral bottom opening in said envelope.

PRESTON L. ANDREWS.

